Geoff Sharp
@Geoff_R_Sharp
Working in and on Collaborative Approaches to Systemic Transformation across the early years' field. Tweets and thoughts are my own etc. etc.
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Congratulations to the Heywood Men’s Shed, nominated by @HeywoodRural , for winning the “Health Volunteer Team of the Year” award for their dedicated volunteer work supporting Heywood Rural Health and the local community. #VPHAwards
Great question from @ToyLibraries - how do we create an integrated space that is social as well as service oriented Why because that means it is safe, owned by family, and on their ground. The secret sauce is often the funding that glues this all together - it isn’t frontline!!
Susie from @CCCH_AU sharing how the integrated child and family centres (#icfc) and hubs are changing the game across hundreds of communities
We have an opportunity for leadership . For leaders to say it is more important to help children succeed than it is to protect your service, your department, your state or federal department. It’s time to let go our traditional roles of go #icfc
But i isn’t about the quantum of dollars - it’s all about how it is delivered - consistency, flexibility and place based and how it encourages the breaking down of silos between systems (Eg health vs education)
To help children it isn’t rocket science: 1. Place based and participatory 2. Flexible 3. Curation not tick boxes 4, family aware 5 relationship based
it is clear that peri urban , regional and remote communities tend to over represent with the challenges of vulnerability and poverty - they are concentrated, place based and… easy to find! But yet of the hundreds of communities there are only a few with an #icfc
Lachlan Smirl leader of Education Policy Practice at @D_AccessEcon shares the models which show that 30% of communities who experience disadvtage would make massive steps if an integrated child and family centre (#icfc) was set up
If you want to enable change it is all about funding. NOT ALL about more money / just smarter, more flexible and less compliance heavy funding streams. Funding around a child and family - not to a child. #icfc
Exisiting funding models and ways of funding are simply not designed or effective to really orientate to the needs of the child and community Changing outcomes is complex deep and hard work you need quality people with deep skills and yet there is no quality framework #icfc
Caitlin from @Social_Ventures sharing her work and learnings about how impactful an integrated approach through an #icfc can be. And how hard it is when you find places that don’t have one as it shows the massive gap where those supports simply aren’t available.
Cassy Bishop, Manager, Cairns & Gordonvale Early Years @benevolentAU sharing the lives experience of a centre that exists to orientate around a child and family not make them fit a program
The world is changing, culture is changing and it’s time we as a system “grow up” and accept that one size does not fit all #icfc children are in community so we have to respond at that place in appropriate ways with the resources they need #icfc
#icfc are about finding the 2 or 3 core people who are “crazy about that kid” because that’s what they need. And it’s about a community that is just as crazy about supporting those who get to be crazy about kids. @Social_Ventures @D_AccessEcon @MCRI_for_kids
Not saying Tim Moore from @CCCH_AU and @MCRI_for_kids has the biggest brain in the room at the launch of the #icfc report launch but from where I am sitting…
Emma Sydenham from @Social_Ventures loving a real world launch of the report into how integrated child and family centres (#icfc) can have a massive impact on childhood outcomes and understanding how best to use them
Here we go…. @SuzieRiddell from @Social_Ventures with @MCRI_for_kids @CCCH_AU @DeloitteAU to unlock the potential of integrated early years support
Victorian Premier : Covid disaster payment for Victorian Nurses - Sign the Petition! chng.it/6cPjrJWL via @ChangeAUS
Icebergs… canvas… and a dash of future focussed U.. what more could you want? How to change a system
Available now, the updated version of our "Iceberg Canvas" bit.ly/2TdPOK8 This canvas follows a process going down one side of the iceberg to outline the current system on its different levels, then tracing back up to give an outline of the desired future system.
Hats off to my colleagues @TheFrontProject this is a really significant report which needs to be considered by everyone involved in and passionate about high quality #ecec
Our latest research with Australian families shows that 80% of parents agreed that the ECEC system needs to change to better support parents to work and/or enable more children to access quality #ECEC. Read our Work and Play report here: bit.ly/3cPZ9hw #ozearlyed
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